Sarina Trangle started as a corporate news reporter in October 2024. She previously spent four years on the business desk at Newsday, covering the health industry, commercial real estate and cannabis.

Those big bathroom- and kitchen-remodeling projects that homeowners may have been thinking about? Some are apparently putting them on hold because of fresh anxiety about the economy. The first sign ...

It’s a tough time to start a big remodeling project: Tariffs threaten to make renovations more expensive, inflation is still hot, and labor costs continue to climb. Faced with these uncertainties, ...